About Edward Miller
mid-level managers around the world. He joined The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 1989 as a leader in
management and graphics programs. He is author of The Charlotte
Project: Helping Citizens Take Back Democracy, the story of the
Institute's work with The Charlotte Observer in 1992 to reform
election coverage.
He was also editor of Eyes on the News, Poynter's book on the impact of color on newspaper readership.
Edward was co-editor of two publications of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism: Civic Journalism: Six Case Studies, and “...with the people,” an editors’ guide to getting readers involved in civic-journalism projects.
His essay on newspapers is one chapter in The Organization of the Future, the second in a series of management books published by the Peter Drucker Foundation.
A graduate of Williams College, Edward began his newspaper career on the International Edition of the New York Herald Tribune in Paris. From 1969 to 1981 he was editor of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he helped develop pioneering management and design techniques. He was named editor and publisher in 1979.
He was a director and officer of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association (APME) and a director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). He was a co-founder of the Society of Newspaper Design (SND) and the First Amendment Coalition of Pennsylvania, and has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
He has been a member of the board of directors of Cedar Crest College, the Mercersburg Academy and Union Theological Seminary. He lives in Woodstock, Georgia, with his wife, Cindy, the managing director of cindy.miller.atl communications.